To distribute leadership or not? A lesson from the islands

Tourism Management

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1141-1149

  Benson, Angela M ^a   Blackman, Deborah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed leadership; Leadership; Volunteer tourism

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; FIRM OWNERSHIP; LEADERSHIP; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

EID: 79955485443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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